Gave Trynt a try - not impressed. Only one search was successful and
that returned no data :(
IMDB support tools that download a local copy of their database, keep it
updated and some decent search utilities. Its pretty old (goes back to
the days when Usenet was the primary distribution channel) and not that
fast, but more then adequate for me...
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/.m/mirrors1/ftp.imdb.com/pub/tools/
Terry
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Powell
Sent: Monday, 9 July, 2007 19:41
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] BBC Programme Catalogue - any APIs yet?
(also IMDB api etc.)
Hey all. This list is growing a little quiet, isn't it?
I'm working with a friend on a .Net/C# media centre application.
We were having problems with other similar systems due to either their
lack of decent metadata handling or their dependency on a specific
renderer (poor subtitle rendering, codec problems etc).
I've been working this past weekend on the media library code
(business objects, etc). It's pretty simple stuff. It would, however, be
nice to bring in far more information about each programme or film than
is in the file's own metadata (which is often quite poor).
On to my questions:
Has anyone yet been able to create an API around the BBC
Programme Catalogue? It seems this would be the best data source to use
so far.
Other than the BBC data, I've looked briefly into using the IMDB
API (3rd party thing from http://www.trynt.com/trynt-movie-imdb-api/)
and the Amazon API.
Does anyone here have experience and/or advice on this? Should I
be considering other APIs as well? Is there a MusicBrainz-equivalent
video system that could also be used?
thanks in advance
- Jonathan "Squiggle" Powell
